049: With David Walsh

David Walsh is a MooTools lover, recent Mozilla-er, and (for a final “M”), fellow original Madisonian with Chris. David has been writing at his blog The David Walsh Blog for over five years. We talk about (roughly in order):

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pacomerh

What does David Walsh means by jquery and other libraries being a big chunk of code, I just looked at mootools and its almost the same size..?
Seems like David is ignoring jQuery because he invested a lotta time on Mootools already

They used to have a builder for 1.8, but I can’t find it anymore. I’m fairly sure that’s where it’s going. Paul Irish mentioned that in Ep 2.

csuwldcat

Because jQuery (until 2014) is a monolithic library, you have to use the whole thing as one big ass hunk – it’s not made to be modular. MooTools is composed of modules that you can chose to use or not, and that includes the actual Core MooTools library. With MooTools, if you don’t want Request, don’t include it. Don’t need Animations? Don’t include it. The other difference, is that MooTools is a bit more advanced in code style and low-level features it provides – Class is an awesome object if you use it right.

Kanga Bell

About wrist issues, the “time out” app I use is called Time Out. I still have a lot of issues with my shoulder/arm/wrist, but now that I take a quick stretch every 10 minutes and a short break every hour it’s a lot better.

You kindda got the first question a wrong. The
person was asking about the REM unit which is distinctly different than
the EM unit. I’m using it for font sizing and for element sizing too.
REMs work fin with padding in my experience.

Later,
EMiner.

mulegoat

Always wondered what happened to Soh Tanaka…i miss that guy (sniff)

Steve

I dealt with severe back issues to the point where I couldn’t spend a whole day sitting at a computer. I started physio and they had me do back targeted “core” exercises and after 3 months I feel great. If you spend 8+ hours a day at the puter, don’t ignore the core.